The first poster for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus looks just as murky and ominous as you’d expect for this quasi-prequel to his science fiction classic Alien. No xenomorphs or other H.R. Giger phantasmagorical imagery — just a lone explorer before a giant visage with the foreboding tagline: “The search for our beginning could lead to our end.”

The film’s official synopsis sounds just as menacing (read: awesome):

Ridley Scott, director of “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

Scott directs said thrilling journey with some seriously good talent like Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba and Guy Pearce. Add in a screenplay co-written by Damon “Lost” Lindelof and you have the makings of a solid SF/horror experience, one that hopefully lives up to all this pent up anticipation that practically wants to burst out of our chests.